Having property or district lines in common; e.g., two lots are abutting if they have property lines in common.

A way of approaching or entering a property.

A building or use which:

Any construction which increases the size of a building such as a porch, attached garage or carport or a new room or wing.

Any person who can show written proof that he has authority to act for the property owner.

The space or area between the rear or side lot lines of lots which has a minor right-of-way width of 20 feet or less which is dedicated for the public use of vehicles and pedestrians and which affords secondary access to an abutting lot.

As applied to a building or structure, is a change or rearrangement in the structural parts of or in the exit facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or moving from one location or position to another.

A change, other than incidental repairs, which would prolong the life of the supporting members of a building, such as bearing wall, columns, beams and girders.

Emergency transportation of the sick and injured, invalid coach service, rental of funeral coaches and limousines and pick up and removal of the deceased.

A portion of a building partly underground, and having 1/2 or more than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling height below the average grade of adjoining ground.

An establishment originally designed as a residential house which offers overnight sleeping accommodations and breakfast for transient guests.

Living quarters which, unlike a dwelling unit, do not contain complete housekeeping facilities and are typically used for sheltering and feeding paying occupants who are not members of the proprietor's family.

The Borough of Greenville.

An enclosed structure built, erected, and framed of component structural parts, designed for the housing, shelter, enclosure and protection of person, animals or property of any kind, including manufactured homes.

A detached, subordinate building, the use of which is customarily incidental and subordinate to that of the principal building, and which is located on the same lot as that occupied by the principal building.

A building where both side walls of all except the end structures are party walls.

A building where both side walls of all except the end structures are party walls.

A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated.

A statement, based on an inspection and signed by the Zoning Officer, indicating that a building, structure, and/or land conforms with the provisions prescribed in this chapter and may lawfully be occupied or used for a specific use or uses.

Nonprofit organizations that are supported primarily by charity and whose principal function is the performance of charitable works or religious activities. Not included in this definition are social organizations or clubs.

A building of public worship.

Any professional medical building or establishment where people are examined or treated by doctors or dentists, but are not hospitalized overnight.

An establishment operated for social, recreational or educational purposes, and open only to members and their guests, but not the general public.

A commercial vehicle shall be any vehicle other than a private passenger vehicle, including trucks, trailers and construction equipment.

A public, semi-public, or nonprofit use that serves the community and generates substantial pedestrian usage along the sidewalk. These facilities may include libraries, museums, community rooms, educational facilities, cultural institutions, post offices, child day-care facilities, fitness centers, and senior housing.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon showing that such use, in a specified location, will comply with the expressed standards and criteria contained in this chapter and any additional safeguards deemed necessary by the governing body.

The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension, expansion, alteration or relocation of a building or structure, including the placement of mobile homes.

Changing the original purpose of a building to a different use or increase in intensity of use.

Any open space, unobstructed from ground to sky, other than a yard, that is on the same lot with and bounded on two or more sides by the walls of a building.

A private legal restriction on the use of land, contained in the deed to the property or otherwise formally recorded.

That percentage of the lot or site area covered by principal and accessory structures.

The line establishing the width of a cartway in a right-of-way. Where curbs do not exist, the edge of pavement shall be the curbline.

The transfer of property from private to public ownership.

See "covenant."

Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, the subdivision of land, streets, and other paving, utilities, filling, grading, excavation, mining, dredging or drilling operations.

A district or a zone shall be any portion of the territory of the Borough of Greenville within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.

A building, whether public or private, associated with a school, college or university designed for, used and arranged with rooms providing sleeping, studying and living accommodations for students.

An open space located on a private lot built for access to a private garage, parking, or to any structure located on the lot.

A building arranged and used for residential occupancy containing a dwelling unit or units, including a one-family, two-family, row and multiple-family dwelling.

A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for one family. The term shall not include cellar dwellings, but shall include all other structures designed for and/or used for living purposes, including:

A building having three or more dwelling units and designed to be used or occupied as a residence by three or more families living independently of each other and each with its own exterior entrance door or own entrance door from an interior hallway.

A detached building designed for and used exclusively for occupancy by one family.

A building having two dwelling units, each with its own exterior entrance door and containing but two families. The dwelling units may be either semidetached with one family living on either side of a common party wall, or stacked with one family living over the other.

A right given by the owner of land to another party for specific limited use of that land.

A construction activity which increases the size of a building or other structure.

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal departments or municipal authorities of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies for the public health, safety and general welfare.

A group of individuals related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship living together in a dwelling unit as a single housekeeping unit under a common housekeeping management plan based on an intentionally structured relationship providing organization and stability.

A home occupation in which a dwelling's primary resident(s) provides supervision/care to no more than 11 persons and must comply with state regulations, the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the rules of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.

The total area of all floors of a building as measured to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including halls, stairways, elevator shafts, attached garages, porches and balconies.

The intensity of land uses as expressed by the ratio of floor area to total square feet of lot area.

The frontage, or front of a lot is the side nearest the street. For the purposes of determining yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage, and yards shall be provided as indicated under "yards" in this article and the specific use provisions of this chapter.

A group of eight or less unrelated persons living together by choice and without time limitation in a dwelling unit as a single housekeeping unit under a common housekeeping management plan based on an intentionally structured stable relationship providing organization and stability.

A detached accessory building or a portion of a principal building used only for the storage of automobiles by the families resident upon the premises; and provided that such garage shall not be used for offering commercial automotive repair or servicing to the public.

An unusual situation or condition that relates to a particular property and which denies that property owner full utilization of his property if the strict application of this chapter is followed. A hardship exists only when it is not self-created or when it is not economic in nature. In other words, a true hardship exists only when the literal interpretation of the requirements of this chapter would place an individual in an unusual circumstance and, in doing so, would deny him the right to use his property for any permitted use or create an unnecessary burden on him. See also § 912, Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Act 247 of 1968, as amended).[1]

The vertical distance from the foundation wall or other immediate support of such wall to the top of the wall.

A home occupation in which the following activities are conducted by the dwelling's primary resident(s): rug weaving, ceramic working, lapidary work and home baking.

A use carried on entirely within a dwelling that is consistent with the residential district's character and function and meets the provisions outlined in Article X, § 550-35K of this chapter. Furthermore, a home occupation shall not be interpreted as a place of business in which the primary purpose of the dwelling would be for the daily operation of a business characterized by employing outside employees, daily customer traffic, and on-site sign and parking areas.

A portion of a dwelling used by a dwelling's primary resident(s) for work involving any of the following artistic activities: painting, photography, composing, writing or sculpting.

A private or public institution where the ill or injured may receive medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment, nursing, food, lodging, etc., during illness or injury.

Animals integrated into and which become part of and may be housed as part of the normal household unit for the purpose of pleasure and companionship. Traditionally dogs, cats and small birds.

Same as "dwelling unit."

A dwelling converted into quarters or a building constructed with quarters intended for the care of sick, aged or infirm persons.

Any worn, cast off or discarded articles or material which is ready for destruction or which has been collected or stored for sale, resale, salvage or conversion to some other use.

The use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any lot, outside a building, or the use of any portion of that half of any lot that joins any street, for the storage, keeping or abandonment of junk. A junkyard shall include an automotive wrecking yard.

The solid portion of the earth's surface which is capable of being used or occupied.

Improved land with buildings.

Raw land which has been provided with basic utilities such as water and sewerage and streets.

Vacant land unsubdivided and unimproved (without utilities or streets).

Changing, rearranging or adding to the original vegetation or scenery of a piece of land to produce an aesthetic effect appropriate for the use to which the land is put. It may include reshaping the land by moving the earth, as well as preserving the original vegetation or adding vegetation.

Research and development activities, the compounding, processing, packaging, storage (as a principal use), assembly and/or treatment of finished or semifinished products from previously prepared materials, which activities are conducted wholly within an enclosed building. These uses include, but are not limited to, machine shops, manufacturing of appliances, electronics, paper products, medical products, tools or hardware or pharmaceuticals.

An off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary stopping of commercial vehicles while loading or unloading merchandise or materials, and which abuts upon a street, alley or other appropriate means of access to a public right-of-way and which is not less than 10 feet in width, 45 feet in length and 14 feet in height.

The basic development unit; an area with fixed boundaries, used or intended to be used by one building and its accessory building(s) and not divided by any public road or alley.

The computed area contained within the lot lines.

See "coverage."

See "frontage."

The line separating the lot from a street.

The lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot line.

Any lot line other than a front or rear lot line; a side lot line separating a lot from a street is called a side street lot line.

The property lines bounding the lot.

A lot which is part of a recorded subdivision or a parcel of land which has been recorded or registered in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection or upon two parts of the same street, such streets or parts of the same street forming an interior angle of less than 135°. The point of intersection of the street lot lines is the "corner."

An interior lot whose front and rear lot lines abut street, or a corner lot with two opposite lines abutting a street.

Lot whose sides do not abut a street.

A lot lawfully existing at the effective date of this chapter, or by subsequent amendment thereto, which does not conform with the area regulations and other provisions prescribed for the zoning district in which it is located.

The horizontal distance between the side lot lines as measured at the building setback line.

A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so designated and improved that it contains two or more manufactured home lots for the placement thereon of manufactured homes.

A parcel of land in a manufactured home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erections thereon of a single manufactured home.

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit from the department under this act to grow and process medical marijuana. The term does not include a health care medical marijuana organization infer Chapter 19.[2]

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit from the department under this act to grow and process medical marijuana. The term does not include a health care medical marijuana organization infer Chapter 19.[3]

Any group of attached, semiattached or detached buildings (not including a trailer) located on a single lot containing individual sleeping or housekeeping units, designed for or used by transients.

A lot maintained by a motor freight company which is the origin and/or destination point of short and long-distance hauling and which is used for the purpose of storing, transferring, loading and unloading of merchandise and truck parking and storage facilities.

An institution licensed to provide nursing care and related medical services to residents. A nursing home may be for-profit, nonprofit, hospital-based or operated by government.

A room or group of rooms used for the practice of a profession or for the conduct of a business, provided that the only merchandise or services that are sold on the premises are incidental or accessory to the principal permissible use.

An area of land unoccupied by a building and/or other structure which is maintained to permit human use, occupancy, recreation and enjoyment.

The duly authorized agent, attorney, purchaser, devisee, fiduciary or any person having vested or contingent interest in the lot, building or structure in question.

An open space on a lot used as an accessory use for the parking of automotive vehicle.

An off-street, ground-level area for the temporary storage of motor vehicles. A parking lot must be surfaced and improved according to Article IX.

An off-street space having an area of not less than nine feet by 20 feet and 180 square feet, whether outside or inside a structure, to be used exclusively as a parking stall for one motor vehicle.

An area surfaced with erosion - Resistant material such as asphalt, concrete or brick-type pavers, not within the right-of-way of a street or alley and having an area of not less than 180 square feet (nine by 20 or 10 by 18), exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary storage of one vehicle and connected by a paved driveway to a street or alley which provides ingress and egress for a vehicle without requiring another vehicle to be moved. The area may not be used for the sale, repair or dismantling or servicing of any vehicles, equipment, materials or supplies.

An area surfaced with erosion-resistant material, such as gravel or paved surfaces, which provides parking space for automobiles that may require another automobile to be moved for ingress and egress. May also include space provided within a garage or car port.

A license, issued by the Zoning Officer, which permits the applicant to proceed with the work specified in the permit application as approved by the Zoning Officer.

An individual, association, co-partner or corporation.

A building where food, shelter and personal assistance or supervision are provided for at least one full day for three or more ambulatory adults who are not relatives of the operator and who may require assistance or supervision in such matters as dressing, bathing, diet or medication prescribed for self-administration but do not require hospitalization or care in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility.

A map, plan or chart of a section or subdivision of the Borough of Greenville indicating the location and boundaries of individual lots.

A parcel of land consisting of one or more portions thereof which is described by reference to a recorded plat or by metes and bounds.

Manufactured or field-constructed equipment designed to contain water on a permanent or semipermanent basis and used for swimming, wading, immersion, or therapeutic purposes.

A roofed-over structure projecting from the front, side, or rear wall of a building. A porch is considered a part of the principal building and is not permitted to extend into any required yards.

A residence that is the home of the occupants more than 1/2 of the year.

The occupants that live in a dwelling more than 1/2 of the year.

A office located in a dwelling in which the dwelling's primary resident(s) conducts business that does not require the assistance of outside employees nor requires personal daily communication with associates or customers. Professions that function as a home occupation in a professional home office shall be limited to the following: accountant, architect, lawyer, insurance agent, planner, land surveyor, engineer, telemarketer, and computer programmer.

Parts of buildings such as architectural features which are exempted, to a specified amount, from the yard requirements of this chapter.

Includes:

Major recreational equipment, as defined for purposes of these regulations, includes travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches, motorized dwellings, tent trailers, boats and boat trailers, and the like, and cases or boxes used for transporting recreational equipment, whether occupied by such equipment or not.

A vehicular type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. The basic entities are: travel trailer, camping trailer, truck camper and motor home.

A medically related facility providing board and room, recreational counseling and other rehabilitative services to individuals of either sex, who by reason of mental or physical disability, addiction to drugs or alcohol, or family and school adjustment problems require specialized attention and care in order to achieve personal independence. Individuals participating in a work release, or similar program from a state correctional facility, and under supervision of a court, state or local agency shall not be included within this definition.

A business that primarily deals in the sales of commodities or goods to the general public.

Any street, highway, or other public roadway which is dedicated to public use by governmental authority.

A home occupation in which a dwelling's primary resident(s) is involved in the operation of such services that does not require the assistance of outside employees nor renders services on a daily basis to customers.

Those shops that primarily sell frequent or recurrent services on site; for example, beauty and barber shops, tailors, tanning salons or dry cleaners.

The required distance which must be maintained between the road center line and the nearest principal and/or accessory structure.

A plot of land intended or suitable for development.

A plan, to scale, showing uses and structures proposed for a parcel of land as required by the regulations involved. It includes lot lines, streets, building sites, reserved open space, buildings, major landscape features, both natural and man-made, and the locations of proposed utility lines.

A provision which permits, under specified terms and conditions, particular uses to locate in a zoning district without detriment to the routine and orderly development as provided for that zoning district. The provision is granted by the Zoning Hearing Board.

A part of a building comprised between a floor and a floor or roof next above, including a basement.

A story with at least two of its opposite side situated in a sloping roof, the floor area of which does not exceed 2/3 of the floor area immediately below it.

A combination of materials forming a construction for occupancy and/or use including, among others, a building, stadium, gospel tent, circus tent reviewing stand, platform, staging, observation tower, radio tower, water tank, trestle, open shed, coal bin, shelter, fence, wall and a sign.

An attached, semidetached or detached structure whose use is customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal structure or use, and is located on the same lot as the principal structure or use.

A legal structure existing at the effective date of adoption or subsequent amendment of this chapter, which does not completely conform to the height regulations, area regulations, and other provisions prescribed for the zoning district in which it is located.

A structure housing the principal use.

The division or redivision of a lot, tract, or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels, or other divisions of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, transfer of ownership or building, or lot development.

A thick hedge, or a solid fence or wall four to six feet in height.

A person or persons passing through or by a place with only a brief stay.

See "recreation equipment."

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of a building, structure, and/or land, except parking and/or loading facilities as herein provided.

A legal use of a building, structure, and/or land existing at the effective date of adoption or subsequent amendment of this chapter, which does not completely conform with the use regulations and other provisions prescribed for the zoning district in which it is located.

The main or primary purpose for which a building, structure, and/or land is designed, arranged, or intended; or, for which it may be used, occupied, or maintained under this chapter. All other structures or uses on the same lot, and incidental or supplemental thereto and permitted under this chapter, shall be considered accessory uses.

Relief granted by the Zoning Hearing Board upon appeal in specific cases, from the terms of this chapter as will not be contrary to the public interest, where owing to special conditions, a literal enforcement of the provisions of the zoning regulations will be observed and substantial justice done. See definition of "hardship."

Any fence, wall, tree, hedge or shrub, or a combination of them which limits visibility.

An open unoccupied space, other than a court, on the same lot with a building, unobstructed artificially from the ground to the sky, except as otherwise provided herein.

A yard across the full width of the lot, extending from any point of a principal building or structure to the road center line.

A yard across the full width of the lot, extending from any point of a wall of a principal building or structure to the road center line.

A yard between the principal building or structure and the adjacent side lot line of the lot, extending from the front yard to the rear yard.

The legal and administrative process of dividing the community into districts or zones and regulating within such districts the use of land, the height and area of buildings for the purpose of conserving and promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience and general welfare of the people of the community. Zoning is the instrument for giving effect to that part of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan which is concerned with the private uses of, and the private developments on, privately owned land as distinguished from that part which is concerned with public uses and facilities.

A group of individuals, created officially by the adoption of this chapter and appointed by the governing body, whose purpose and function is to review applications for variances or exceptions and to decide whether there is legitimate reason for granting the applicant the relief which he desires or the exception which he has requested.

The Zoning District Map or Maps of the Borough of Greenville, together with all amendments subsequently adopted.

The agent or official designated by the Borough of Greenville and charged by law with the administration and enforcement of this chapter.

The Zoning Ordinance of the Borough of Greenville together with all amendments subsequently adopted.